Scythe.



No. 745,798" PATENTED DEGL1, 1903.

V. GZERMAK SCYTHE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 10, 1901.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented December 1, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

SCYTH E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 745,798, dated, December 1, 1903.

Application filed January 10, 1901. Serial No. 42,713. (No model.)

- T aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that LVIoroR OZERMAK, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at J enbach, Tyrol, Empire of Austria- Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scythes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to scythes.

The scythe is made from sheet metal, and it has a blade terminating at its inner end in a bend to constitute a handle-receiving socket and a rib extending longitudinally of the rear edge of the blade and across the corresponding portion of the bend. Preferably the scythe has a second rib extending across the bend depthwise thereof.

A scythe constructed as aforesaid is simple in construction and very strong. It may be made at a single operation and by means of suitable devices.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a scythe made in accordance with the invention, and Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same from the side of and below the same.

Like characters refer to like parts throughout the several drawings.

In forming the scythe I take a blank of steel plate of the desirable thickness and shape and by one operation, with the aid of suitable devices, form the same with a blade or cutting portion a, terminating at What might properly be considered its inner end in a bend b, so shaped as to form a cavity for receiving the handle a. 'A rib f is pressed into the face of the blade at along its rear edge for strengthening said blade, and thus dispensing with the heavy back usually found in scythes. This rib in addition to extend ing longitudinally of the blade along the rear edge thereof also extends along the corresponding portion of the bend. At the same time that the rib f is formed a similar rib e is produced. This rib 6 extends across the bend b depthwise of the scythe. The handle 0 may be secured, by means of bolts 61, to the bend 6. Both ribs (2 and f are of concavoconvex form in cross-section, their convex portions extending in opposite directions.

A scythe constructed as hereinbefore set forth can be very easily and quickly made from sheet metal and is thoroughly strong and avoids many objections that scythes of the ordinary kinds possess.

Having described the invention, What I claim is A sheet-metal scythe having a blade terminating at its inner end in a bend to constitute a handle-receiving socket, a rib extending completely along the rear edge of the blade, and a second rib extending across the bend depthwise thereof, the whole being stamped from sheet metal at a single operation.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

VICTOR OZERMAK.

Witnesses:

RUDOLPH W. HIEBL, KARL KAMMERER. 

